D. Watkins (page 18)

Twitter: @dwatkinsworld

D. Watkins is an Editor at Large for Salon. He is also a writer on the HBO limited series "We Own This City" and a professor at the University of Baltimore. Watkins is the author of the award-winning, New York Times best-selling memoirs “The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America”, "The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir," "Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope" as well as "We Speak For Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress." His new books, "Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments," and "The Wire: A Complete Visual History" are out now.

People working together

"Say 'no' nicely": Toxic workplace culture demands Black women shrink themselves and never speak up D. Watkins

Face Maks

Are we ready to start re-opening after a year of the pandemic? D. Watkins

Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump D. Watkins

Boogie

With basketball drama "Boogie," Eddie Huang is finally "free of the shadow" of "Fresh Off the Boat" D. Watkins

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Michelle Obama & Breonna Taylor portraitist on Black artists: "We've been here all along" D. Watkins

D. Watkins and Dante Barksdale

I failed my friend Dante Barksdale. We all failed him D. Watkins

Judas and the Black Messiah

"Judas and the Black Messiah" filmmakers on exposing how the FBI hunted 1960s Black activiststs D. Watkins

Fake Famous

HBO doc shows how it's easy to make "Fake Famous" influencers, whose job is to "make you feel bad" D. Watkins

Washington DC Police; Trump Supporters; Mob

The selective restraint of American police on display at the Capitol riot amazed me D. Watkins

Coronavirus Vaccine

The Black community is right to be suspicious of the medical establishment right now D. Watkins

Barack Obama; Defund the Police

No, Obama, we do mean "defund the police": It's not a snappy slogan, it's a demand for justice D. Watkins

40 Years a Prisoner

"40 Years a Prisoner" confronts the police we're supposed to trust "telling bold-faced lies" D. Watkins

D Watkins; Illustration

"We young, bro": My friend lost a decade of his life, but I can't go back to our youth with him D. Watkins

The Wire

Thanksgiving and "The Wire": My true Baltimore story about the streets, writing and TV D. Watkins

Nikki Giovanni

Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple D. Watkins

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